9-Letter Words Starting with P

Pesthole

A house or hospital for persons who are infected with any pestilential disease.

It kills harmful creatures

Debugger (wordplay)

Raid, for example

I lent pets that were noxious

Likely to spread disease

Extremely destructive

Resembling a leaf

Petasos

Petasus

Petechia

""Characterized by, or pertaining to, petechi\'91; spotted.""

PETIOLE the stalk of a leaf

""A small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet.""

Small items charged by requests

They need signatures

Protests on paper with signatures

Petnap

Scared of getting stoned (wordplay)

Turned to stone

Numbed with fear

Scares stiff

Troubled, let me pour oil (wordplay)

Oil neck part with hesitation (wordplay)

Sort of jelly prepared in our temple

Study of rocks

Exercise book found in ancient battlefield rocks science

Petronel

and 24: A London slip road (wordplay)

Finish following, say, minor slip

Frilly underskirt of yore

Acts the crooked lawyer

Small-minded behaviour

State of small-mindedness or triviality

Square with Epstein's sculpture 'Insignificance'

PETTISH {peevish=adj}

Feet of a pig used as food

Bad temper, sulkiness

Sulky bad behaviour

Stroke uncle with a ruptured spleen

Peevish state

Petuntse

Petuntze

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Pewterer

""A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up (eating), in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.""

Lemur-like creature

Possum's Australian cousin

King Henry in pain over Queen, the beast!

Infantry formations

Pan has leg to remodel - and parts of fingers

Toes*

Groups of similar things

Military units

Infantry formations

Small shore bird

Part of a Paton title.

Bird in Alan Paton title.

Phallism

Phallist

Phallus

Apparition

They're in one's head

Haunted house residents

Ghostlike figures

Phantast

As old leaders of poverty hit and repressively armed oil nation in crisis

PHARE a lighthouse

Scholarly sect of yore

Group attacked by John the Baptist

Opponents of the Sadducees.

Links to esophagi

Pharynx

A gradual reduction.

Phaseout

Gamekeeper's concern

Game birds with brightly coloured males

Long-tailed birds

The tissue of young cells which produces cork cells.

Greek vestment to help out with tear-jerker

""A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals, sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receives its name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.""

""A natural beryllium silicate, Be 2 SiO 4 , occurring as vitreous crystals sometimes used as gems.""

""A yellow crystalline compound, C 6 H 4 N 2 C 6 H 4 , used in the manufacture of dyes.""

Phenazin

PHENETIC pertaining to a type of classificatory system

Phenetol

PHENE an old name for benzene

Salt of carbolic acid

Phenolic

""The science of the relations between climate and periodic biological phenomena, as the migrations and breeding of birds, the flowering and fruiting of plants, etc.""

The Beatles and Justin Bieber, once

Wonders if scrap heap contains new sign

They're extraordinary

Total physical appearance of an organism

See phenolate .

""An anticonvulsant drug, C 15 H 12 N 2 O 2 , used most commonly in the treatment of epilepsy. Also called diphenylhydantoin .""

Attractive secretion (wordplay)

Chemical signal between organisms

Chemical affecting behaviour

Philabeg

Royal couple to flirt (wordplay)

Royal couple make love (wordplay)

Risk scandal, in a way

Donahue's hobby (wordplay)

Hobby of our thirty-second President.

Injured hip not long ago in a pursuit

Philibeg

Royal to snap, giving rise to invective

Name-calling speech.

Denunciatory speech

Land in ancient Palestine

Study of languages

Study of language

Literary study

Philomel

Philter

Philtre

Complaint when hip belt is adjusted

Inflammation of a leg vein

Inflammation of a vein

Phlegmy

Phoebus

Ones who won't look ashy for long (wordplay)

Unique birds

Ones who look ashy when they wake (wordplay)

Phonate

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

PHONEMIC pertaining to {phoneme=n}

Study making sound judgments (wordplay)

Science of speech sounds

Speech study for dialers

Phoney

PHONE to telephone

Speech-sound character

Character representing a sound

A symbol representing a vocal sound

""A compact, feldspathic, igneous rock containing nephelite, ha\'81ynite, etc. Thin slabs give a ringing sound when struck; called also clinkstone. clinkstone.""

Study of speech sounds

Phoronid

Phosgene

Soda jerk's offering

Hope paths lead to artificial fertiliser

Acid salt used, eg, as a fertiliser

""A luminous impression produced through excitation of the retina by some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. Afterimage. Afterimage.""

A binary compound of phosphorus.

Phosphid

""A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen. PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.""

Phosphin

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Morning star

Phosphor

Brightness detector

Electricity generator nicked in post office - thief may end up here!

Device used to detect and measure light and other radiations

Use a certain office machine

Use an office machine

Duplicate made with an office machine

Pictorial photograph

English word

Photomap

English word

PHOTONIC pertaining to {photon=n}

Photopia

Waldo Salt supply

Photoset

(Issued quarterly)

Copy of a kind.

Apparatus for making facsimile copies

An electron tube with a photosensitive cathode.

PHRASAL pertaining to a group of two or more associated words

Wordings

Phratry

One who is phrenetic.

Phrensy

Phrensy

Phthalin

Phthisic

""The science of alg\'91, or seaweeds; algology.""

Phyllite

Phyllode

Suff. ; see collodion .]

Phylloid

Phyllome

""The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of the individual organism, and from biogenesis, or life development generally.""

Physical

Licensed medical practitioner

Patience (wordplay)

Lifeguard (wordplay)

This spicy brew is for researcher

Yankee's club

One studying the nature of matter

Physic

Bod examples (wordplay)

They're judged at some pageants

Builds

""PIANISTE someone who plays the piano, also PIANIST""

Piassaba

Piassava

Picador

English word

Old rogues could be let loose in Capri soon

Things of very small value

Choose one of the players for the ride

One way to shoulder the job of team selection

Act as a football selector - see this in celebration after goal (wordplay)

Pickadil

A variant spelling of picaroon PILFERAGE 1. the act or practice of stealing small quantities or articles

Pickax

Pickeer

Fresh-water fish

They're a striking group

Striking figures

Strikers would be the same at Lord's, taking credit for pressure

Strike activity

Choosing to accept debt regularly is the action of a striker

Thieves' tools

Certain thieves.

Designed to prevent picking: a pickproof lock.

""One who strives to put another under obligation; an officious person; hence, a flatterer. Used also adjectively.""

Pickwick

Picloram

Picnic

Person eating a meal in the open-air

Type of celebrator on 7 Down

One trillionth (10 -12 ) of a farad.

Picogram

Picoline

Picomole

Drawn symbol representing a word/phrase

Computer icon, for example

Computer icon, e.g

Graphic clip to air must be edited

Well-illustrated magazine

Clip a riot (anagram) - graphic

Forming mental images of

To picture.

PIDGIN a mixed language

Portion the food bit by bit (wordplay)

Sample tea, perhaps, a little at a time

Bit at a time for smorgasbord (wordplay)

Type of mathematical function

One way to earn.

Method of operation in some factories.

Tut! That's fantastic English epic work

Fruit wrappers of sorts

They should be flaky

Empty shells in the kitchen

Piedfort

Piedmont

Pieplant

Serving with sour cream

Smetana pairing

Polish pockets

'Spiritual' - Mondrian? Perhaps 'artlessly artistic'

English word

Pigfish

Sties

PIGGISH greedy or dirty

Greedy football player (wordplay)

A porcine ride (wordplay)

Ball-hogging player (wordplay)

Obstinate swine isn't just this!

Obstinate in porcine way

Tough to budge

Colorful

Pignolia

Pigstick

""Having a tail like a pig's; as, the pigtailed baboon. as, the pigtailed baboon.""

Proverbially plain handle of old weapon

There's a fish on the rod, plain enough

Wooden handle of a medieval weapon

Roof-truss supports.

Rectangular columns

Architectural columns

Fish and chips cooked with lard

Pilewort

Theft (of small items)

Robber's deed

Retailer's bane

Pilferer

Pilfer

""One who has lost his hair by disease; a sneaking fellow, or one who is hardly used.""

Huns, for example

Looters stumble on the way up, drinking beer

The medicine is gettint too old, so it's robbery

It's robbery when the medicine is getting too old

Pillar

Places for aspirins or weapons

Jackie's hats

Signature hats for Jacqueline Kennedy

Exposed to public scorn.

Exposed to public scorn

Not so well or in the Piper to be so ridiculed

They held people in ridicule

Exposes to public scorn

Pillow

Pilotage

Piloting

Lacking a navigator

Unattended, when entering a port

Like drones

Bohemian beers